A Knight's Tale Critic Reviews

Metascore®:

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Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

Savvy without being smug, cute without being saccharin, and funny without slipping into over-the-top goofiness, this is a 14th-century good time.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

A Knight's Tale, will either repel you or win you over. It won me over.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Bob GrahamAdd Critic to Favorites

More often than not, it's fun.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

It's a reminder of the days before films got so cynical and unrelentingly violent. A Knight's Tale is whimsical, silly and romantic.Read the full review

Washington Post | Rita KempleyAdd Critic to Favorites

The action scenes are beautifully mounted and photographed and offer a sense of the rigors of the sport.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

It's a dumb summer movie done with smarts.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

Simply a jolly good (k)night out.Read the full review

Wall Street Journal | Joe MorgensternAdd Critic to Favorites

A Knight's Tale wasn't made for people like me. It was made for the kids of summer.Read the full review

The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites

The picture itself is good-humored, but bland and predictable. It's a cross between an All-American vaudevillian version of "Shakespeare in Love" and Mel Brooks's "Robin Hood: Men in Tights."Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

Laddish, one joke, genre scrambling rock & roll fairy tale.Read the full review

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